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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 17 December 2005

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 24
  2. 36
  3. 44
  4. 46
  5. 53
  6. 18

Jackpot$15,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/55 + 1/42 · Aug 2005 – Jan 2009draw 32 of 350 under them

← 2005-12-14All recent draws2005-12-21 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed24 36 44 46 53 + 1829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/55 + 1/42 · Aug 2005 – Jan 2009 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 31 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 December 2005 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

30oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 30 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 9% of every possible ticket.

  • sum97th
  • odd9th
  • low9th
  • widest gap15th
  • neighbours34th
  • spread20th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

242times
361time
442times
461time
53

Prize breakdown · 2005-12-17

  • Paid out$0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winners$15.0M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$15,000,000
  2. Match 50$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0

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2times
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

180times

Every number was expected about that many times after 31 draws, and they scatter around it. Warm means more than expected, cool means fewer — and a cold number arriving is exactly what cold numbers do.

Frequency Explorer →

Its nearest twin

Shares 2 of 5 numbers (36, 53) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 22 October 2005 — its closest relative in 31 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 85% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 December 2005): nothing carried over. Chance says 39% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

203

The numbers add up to 203 — the 97th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 140. No two numbers side by side. 32% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

46 had not appeared for 20 draws. A number waits about 11 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 27% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$10,000
  • Match 40$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$7.00
  • Match 30$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$7.00
    Match 30$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0$100
    Match 40$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0$10,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$15,000,000